GSAC Adds Finlandia University, the University of Maine at Presque Isle and Mills College

Jan 14, 2013

ATLANTA, Ga. - Finlandia University, the University of Maine at
Presque Isle and Mills College have each accepted invitations to
join the Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC). Finlandia’s
softball squad will join the league immediately and compete for the
2013 GSAC softball championship while all other women’s
sports teams will begin play in full for the NCAA Division III
league in the 2013-14 athletics season.

“The Great South Athletic Conference is thrilled to announce
the addition of Finlandia University, the University of Maine at
Presque Isle and Mills College,” said GSAC commissioner
Joeleen Akin. “With their dedication to maintaining high
academic standards while fostering top-notch athletic competition
they were natural choices to join our league.”

Located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula just minutes from the
southern shore of Lake Superior, Finlandia is a private
co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America. Finlandia University expresses its
mission on their web site as fostering “a learning community
dedicated to academic excellence, spiritual growth, and
service.”

Based in northern Maine, the University of Maine at Presque Isle
is a publicly supported, baccalaureate institution that states its
mission on their web site to “provide broad educational
opportunities for a diverse student body with particular reference
to the people of its region and state.”

Located in Oakland, California, Mills College is an independent
liberal arts college for women with graduate programs for women and
men. Per the university website, Mills College has a mission to
“educate students to think critically and communicate
responsibly and effectively, to accept the challenges of their
creative visions, and to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary
to effect thoughtful changes in a global, multicultural
society.”